Lycom RAID Card

GhostlyPea · 11 Oct 2009 at 14:38

Hi all,

I have seen a Lycom ST-125 RAID card that I would like to put 2/3 drives in to RAID with but I have no idea how good these are? It won't be a performance RAID, just for redundant storage. Currently using Vista x64, moving on to W7 x64 soon. Any opinions would be appreciated!

Thanks

- Pea0n

Zarf · 11 Oct 2009 at 15:22

It'll work fine for RAID1 (mirrored drives). PCI bus is 133MB/s which should be fine for RAID1.
If you've got the ports free on your motherboard you may as well save some money and use onboard though.

GhostlyPea · 11 Oct 2009 at 15:29

The main reason is for redundancy or porting to array to a new board with data intact. More importantly I'm after how stable the drivers are?

- Pea0n

Zarf · 12 Oct 2009 at 02:36

you get the same redundancy running RAID1 on your onboard controller. Any motherboard from the last couple of years will do at least as good a job as a cheap pci RAID card.

Migration wise, again you shouldn't have too many issues with RAID1, especially with the more modern boards. Just plug in and import the foreign array.